Salt and Woodsmoke

I wonder how many fish eggs are inside these large lobes. If all were fertilised then we may be able to re-populate the North sea with cod.
As much as I love this product I am beginning to think that justifying it as a bye-product is not a good enough argument for smoking it. It’s Icelandic [...]

that two days after bemoaning supermarkets I went and spent over £100 in Tescos. It made me feel dirty.
The six pounds I spent in Radmore Farm Shop (our new local independent food store) hasn’t totally cleared my conscience.

Here’s a story:
A small deli not that far from a decent supermarket does a reasonable trade in some quality chocolate product. Having sold well in the deli for a while it suddenly stops selling. The owner of the deli asks a regular customer why they have stopped buying said product. The customer replies that [...]

As I type, juice from the hot hot-smoked beef is dribbling down my chin and onto the keybo$FFDAS. .
I ended up steaming it in over a grill pan of water for 2 hours in a 80°C oven.
The result is a resounding YEAH for the flavour but mumbled ERM for texture. I think it needs a [...]

At some point from before my daughter was born and the birth of my son, I became a very keen baker. I would regularly make large sourdough loaves that would take three days to build and bake or ciabatti or pizza or chocolate bread.
All that stopped pretty soon after the birth of my son who [...]

Last night I dreamt that I’d receieved a mail from our sole customer of Bottisham Smoked Beef. In that mail he said that he loved what we had produced and that he’d like to buy more.
This evening I checked my Inbox and found a mail from Richard with the following comments:
“It was, in [...]

Below is a picture of some meat. I was thinking today that maybe I should call it Bottisham Smoked Beef. I mean it isn’t really pastrami and I don’t have a proper recipe for Montreal Smoked Meat. What do I sell it as, should we put it on our product list?
Anyway, here it is in [...]

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the new Local Flavour website.
Created by Ben and co at Webrex. We’re very happy about the look and feel. Kirstan has spent ages populating our product catalogue but there is a lot of proof-reading and image uploading to do.
Any comments/feedback welcome(*).
(* - Yes, it probably doesn’t work on Konqueror [...]

..turned up today. Old friend of Roger’s, don’t you know? The owner of that salmon that is, not the salmon itself. Though…..
“Caught it down on the Wye. With a size 3 stoat tail”. “Did you?”, I asked; pretending to know what on earth he was talking about. ” Yes. Not many fish down there though.” [...]

Normally we smoke mackerel whole but headless. It’s economical, they look good in a shop and restaurants like them.
I hadn’t tried smoking fillets but I did so this week and this is how they came out:

More than looking good, they tasted fantastic. More of the flesh is exposed to the smoke and hence [...]